This Week in Virology

TWiV 1093: Reservoir bats and jumbo phage


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TWiV discusses effectiveness of this season’s flu vaccine, efficacy of Pfizer RSV vaccine, nOPV2 in the US, dengue in Peru, measles in Michigan and Indiana, how coordinated inflammatory responses dictate control of Marburg virus by reservoir bats, and tRNA acquisition in phages driven by degradation of host translational machinery.

Hosts: Vincent RacanielloRich ConditKathy SpindlerBrianne Barker, and Jolene Ramsey

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  • The New City by Dickson Despommier
  • Effectiveness of flu vaccine (MMWREurosurveill)
  • Efficacy of Pfizer RSV vaccine (Pfizer)
  • Understanding six types of vaccine technologies (Pfizer)
  • nOPV in US? (CDC)
  • Dengue in Peru (Peruvian State)
  • Measles in Michigan and Indiana
  • Marburg virus control by reservoir bats (Nat Commun)
  • tRNA acquisition by phages (Cell)
  • Viruses of Microbes 2024
  • Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
Weekly Picks

Brianne – The reappearance of Lake Manly Kathy – “Practical Playbook for Addressing Health Misinformation” Rich – Making It So: A Memoir by Patrick Stewart Jolene – Thinking Like a Phage by Merry Youle Vincent – The Science of Leap Year

Listener Picks

Blog design – Anthony Fauci will reflect on his long government career in ‘On Call,’ to be published in June Peter – Republican warns of vaccines being slipped into vegetables: ‘A polio vaccine in there’

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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